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Ghislain Sommervogel's avatar
Ghislain Sommervogel
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2 years ago

.NET API - Authorization issue

Hi all, We have an app that relies on the business API. It creates groups, members, team folders, etc. As a team administrator, I can run it and it's working properly. My problem is that the targete...
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Greg-DB
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2 years ago

Ghislain Sommervogel Thanks for following up. I'm sorry to hear about the difficulty you've had configuring this. So that we can take a closer look at this error and offer some help, can you share the full URL of the page showing this error?

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Ghislain Sommervogel
Helpful | Level 5
2 years ago

Hi Greg, yes, sure:

https://www.dropbox.com/oauth2/authorize?response_type=token&client_id=qh66b8nksm8ygyl&redirect_uri=http%3A%2F%2F127.0.0.1%3A52475%2Fauthorize&state=87bcd8a3f6ea440496a9fc373a776c27&token_access_type=legacy&scope=groups.write

But don't spend too much time on this, because - as I said - we switched to another approach. I ran into a new problem with the refreshtoken setup, but I will expose it in a new thread.

Have a nice evening!

Ghislain

  • Greg-DB's avatar
    Greg-DB
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    2 years ago

    Thanks! Yes, to confirm, this URL is requesting only the "groups.write" scope, via the "scope=groups.write" parameter, but the app for that client_id doesn't currently have "groups.write" enabled, so this request can't be serviced, and accordingly this error is returned. To avoid this error, you would need to either not request this scope in the URL, or enable this scope on that app (which may involve enabling other scopes it depends on).

    • Ghislain Sommervogel's avatar
      Ghislain Sommervogel
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      2 years ago

      Hi Greg, I agree but when I enable this scope in the app, the user is then required to be team admin to authorize the app. That is where the vicious circle stays.

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